Example sentences of "[verb] she at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it . |
| 2 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't recognise her at first , ’ Lily told her . |
| 4 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 5 | Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby . |
| 6 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 7 | When the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] visited her at Ekenge in 1895 , she found Miss Slessor ‘ has lost most of her missionary ideas and bullies the native chiefs in their own tongue … and is regarded by the other missionaries as mad and dangerous ’ . |
| 8 | THE PRINCESS of Wales met one of her heroines when Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited her at Kensington Palace . |
| 9 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 10 | Ever since Courtney indecently assaulted her at his Harley Street clinic in October last year , the girl known to the jury as Miss C has been having nightmares about the attack . |
| 11 | she 's gon na need her at weekends as well , in the summer , because she 'll be away eventing . |
| 12 | Franks flashed him a look of irritation , as if it was disloyal of the picture editor to criticise Nicola now that she was dead , indeed criticise her at all . |
| 13 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 14 | Go to find her at lunch-time , throw my arms round her and promise my never-ending life-long devotion . |
| 15 | ‘ It happens , Araminta , that Miss Kyte was in the act of answering the summons , ’ her cousin lied calmly , ‘ for I had myself come to find her at Aunt Lavvy 's request . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You never went to find her at Rosslare ? |
| 17 | Mandy did n't come to the meeting , Mrs. Maddison keeping her at home as a punishment for her disobedience in going into the swamp . |
| 18 | The Doc 's patented micro-organisms were beavering away inside , keeping her at the peak of perfection . |
| 19 | Marek was fencing with her , keeping her at bed 's length . |
| 20 | I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ? |
| 21 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 22 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's why I 'm keeping her at my place for the moment . ’ |
| 24 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 25 | He is deeply insecure and does n't expect love , never having received it before , yet he deals with Miranda 's death so matter-of-factly , hardly seeming upset at all , that he ca n't have cared for her very much as an individual , which is not surprising as he really does n't know her at all well . |
| 26 | Did n't know her at all . |
| 27 | I did n't know her at all , other than to see her go into the house and out of the house . |
| 28 | ‘ He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound . |
| 29 | When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door . |
| 30 | ‘ I further said to [ the defendant ] ‘ You set men to watch her , you trail her and found her at Gloria Chin 's house and there you threatened to kill her with your gun , but she escaped you . |